OT: World Politics

[MindzEye]

"all vaccinations should require consent" said the man who grew up without ever meeting a single human being suffering from Polio.

 

[TheCountofMonteCristo]

Why do you assume that mentioning people who's views I share somehow equals "worship"? Thunberg, at a minimum, espouses the view that climate change is a real thing, which makes her exponentially more enlightened than the entire GOP and CPC combined.

what solution(s) does she offer? She was a cute story a few years ago but screaming "how dare you" hardly moves the dial.

We can ban all the plastic forks we want, ban the sale of gasoline cars all we want but unless China and India are on board, nothing we do in Canada will make one iota of difference to the climate.

Punish me with a bag tax all you want, it will still get hotter in the summer. The world ia thus.

 

[LeafGm]

what solution(s) does she offer? She was a cute story a few years ago but screaming "how dare you" hardly moves the dial.

We can ban all the plastic forks we want, ban the sale of gasoline cars all we want but unless China and India are on board, nothing we do in Canada will make one iota of difference to the climate.

Punish me with a bag tax all you want, it will still get hotter in the summer. The world ia thus.

I hear this argument a lot from boomer relatives with regards to climate change. Not climate change denial, but complete, lazy defeatism.

Basically, “Canada can’t unilaterally solve climate change and it’s an issue that can’t be solved simply or immediately, therefore we should do absolutely nothing at all about the problem.”

 

[zeke]

We're actually close to having the Tech to finally undo Big Oil's deathgrip on the world economy, so they're piling billions into blinding dumb boomers like Count with Woke Outrage nonsense to try and stop it from happening.

 

[TheCountofMonteCristo]

I hear this argument a lot from boomer relatives with regards to climate change. Not climate change denial, but complete, lazy defeatism.

Basically, “Canada can’t unilaterally solve climate change and it’s an issue that can’t be solved immediately, therefore we should do absolutely nothing at all about the problem.”

As Wehave says, objective reality is neither good nor bad, it just is. Putting lipstick on a pig doesn't change the fact it's a pig.

I recycle all I can, I bought an XT6, not an Escalade (much to my personal sadness) and pay atrociously high gas taxes. That said, I know it isn't making any difference.

 

[TheCountofMonteCristo]

We're actually close to having the Tech to finally undo Big Oil's deathgrip on the world economy, so they're piling billions into blinding dumb boomers like Count with Woke Outrage nonsense to try and stop it from happening.

Slacktivist Zeke, who says I'm a boomer?

BTW what model Tesla do you drive?

 

[manny]

We're actually close to having the Tech to finally undo Big Oil's deathgrip on the world economy, so they're piling billions into blinding dumb boomers like Count with Woke Outrage nonsense to try and stop it from happening.

Lots of easy marks out there (and in here).

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

Slacktivist Zeke, who says I'm a boomer?

BTW what model Tesla do you drive?

Gen Xers are so underappreciated and disregarded that we just wind up being lumped in with Boomers, who are actually the people responsible for getting rid of all the advantages they were afforded thereby preventing the next generation (X) from getting ahead. And Millennials and Gen Z don't care if every human over the age of 40 lives or dies.

 

[TheCountofMonteCristo]

Gen Xers are so underappreciated and disregarded that we just wind up being lumped in with Boomers, who are actually the people responsible for getting rid of all the advantages they were afforded thereby preventing the next generation (X) from getting ahead. And Millennials and Gen Z don't care if every human over the age of 40 lives or dies.

Zeke is an X just like we are.

 

[worm]

Slacktivist Zeke, who says I'm a boomer?

BTW what model Tesla do you drive?

Zeke has 24 super cars. He can email you the list.

 

[worm]

Gen Xers are so underappreciated and disregarded that we just wind up being lumped in with Boomers, who are actually the people responsible for getting rid of all the advantages they were afforded thereby preventing the next generation (X) from getting ahead. And Millennials and Gen Z don't care if every human over the age of 40 lives or dies.

I care if I live or die
Just sayin

 

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[Bleedsblue&white]

Thankfully we have people like this to counter the counts

 

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[lecoqsportif]

Some officials in Iran are getting nervous that the supply of drones to Russia means they are liable for war crimes. Obviously they were ignored by the Revolutionary Guard, but this is causing discomfort.

(And it might be the Ukrainians have given downed drones to Israel…)

 

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[Stinky]

It’s only going to get worse there.

The population bubble will be a huge problem for them.